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With her decades of paddling experience, Barb Weeden wouldn’t have taken Jeremiah Perry or his fellow students on that ill-fated Algonquin Park canoe trip that ended in the teen’s drowning.
And Weeden says she warned high school teacher Nicholas Mills that his group of novice paddlers and non-swimmers wasn’t ready for a challenging excursion to the back-country of the lake-filled wilderness park.
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“He said he’s been doing this for years and he didn’t seem too worried about it,” recalled the former executive director of Sparrow Lake Camp.